Ontario's Vaccination Legislature
Ontario’s Immunization of School Pupil’s Act (1982), which mandates vaccinations for school children, (there is no legislature anywhere in Canada that require infants to be vaccinated) contains exemption clauses written into the legislation that guarantee parents the right to opt out of vaccinations for their school age children for reasons of conscience or religion. The Statment of Conscience or Religious Belief Affidavit is required by the Ministry of Health in place of a Record of Vaccination and must be notarized to be deemed valid, which constitutes a form of discrimination against parents who choose to defer from vaccination because no other medical treatment in Canada requiring parental consent requires notarizing. This is one of the many ways the Ontario Government intimidates and bullies parents into believing that children can’t go to school without Record of Vaccination. In Ontario parents who have chosen against vaccinating their children are sent harassing letters demanding vaccine compliance and threatening expulsion of their children from school, when in actuality the expulsion can only last up to two weeks if a record of vaccination is not submitted, without any mention that legal exemptions are available. Clearly the Ministry of Health is enacting a policy to disinform the public of it’s right to vaccine exemptions. School officials, health officials, and private doctors all reinforce the myth that vaccination is compulsory, and without it children can’t go to school. The media dutifully regurgitates this misinformation when it publishes press releases intended to create the impression that students will be barred from school if they haven’t got all their shots, and consistently fails to inform the public that legal exemptions are available to everyone. People need to challenge this and write letters to editors demanding that they inform the public about available exemptions.Share
